Timeline for How to write a prophecy?
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| Jan 3, 2018 at 19:45 | comment | added | user | When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone, sits at Cair Paravel in throne, the evil time will be over and done. | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 17:11 | answer | added | Samantha Munson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 7:22 | answer | added | CatQueen | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 5:53 | comment | added | Misha R | Wow that really is one badass prophecy. Probably because it first creates a really mysterious setting (what is this weird time? That in itself is a riddle) and then warns you against doing something that is no less a mystery. And implies mysterious consequences. Mysterious setting, mysterious action, mysterious consequence. And yet, DON'T DO IT. Awesome. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 16:02 | comment | added | user14995 | Read Percy Jackson seriously so many cryptic prophecys like seriously inspiration that's how I did it XD. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 7:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWriters/status/476625824511451136 | ||
| Jun 11, 2014 at 6:48 | vote | accept | Liath | ||
| Jun 10, 2014 at 23:35 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | Probably the best twist on the concept of prophecies in literature that I've seen comes from the last two books of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. It turns out that the prophecy of the Hero of Ages (SPOILER ALERT!) had been manipulated and warped over the ages by the dark god it was supposed to be warning people about, to the point where those who attempted to follow it would end up setting him free and enabling him to bring about the apocalypse. Oops! | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 14:48 | comment | added | user5232 | @LaurenIpsum This is related to time travel conception (a prophecy is just information time travel). With one immutable time line, the prophecy will come true. A mutable time line (or parallel universes) makes the prophecy a warning of what had happened without the prophecy. There is also the question of whether the prophecy was a true vision and faithfully passed on. Ancient prophecies can suffer from copyist error and mistranslation (word meanings/connotations can change). | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 14:28 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | Something else I thought of: are the good guys and bad guys working on two different sets of prophecies? David Eddings did this in the Belgariad. Both sets talked about the same events, favoring different outcomes depending on whether Good or Evil was making the prophecy. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 13:53 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 12:50 | comment | added | Liath | @LaurenIpsum I quite like prophecies which do end up coming true but not as the characters expect - but that's personal preference | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 9:57 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | Other things to consider: Is the prophecy immutable? (that is, will it come true no matter what the protagonists or antagonists do?) What happens if it's thwarted? Could more than one person or event fulfill the prophecy? Will your prophecy have two forks? (If X happens, the good guys win; if Y happens, the bad guys do) | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 9:32 | answer | added | SF. | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 7:51 | history | asked | Liath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |